Personal computing discussed
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derFunkenstein wrote:just brew it! wrote:Breezed through most of my CS courses (because that's what I was interested in and I had already taught myself a fair bit of it), but the rest of it was a slog.
That sounds very familiar. I'm thrilled that I don't have any more gen eds to take.
Vhalidictes wrote:Well, I *was* until I got a internship debugging uncommented *and* contracted MUMPS code. (Yes, this is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS). Source looked more like random capital letters than anything else. Killed any interest I had in computer programming for almost twenty years.
ludi wrote:The first class I ever failed was Differential Equations, and the second time I only got through with a 'D'-for-Done.
Vhalidictes wrote:I got a internship debugging uncommented *and* contracted MUMPS code. (Yes, this is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS). Source looked more like random capital letters than anything else. Killed any interest I had in computer programming for almost twenty years.
Chuckaluphagus wrote:Vhalidictes wrote:I got a internship debugging uncommented *and* contracted MUMPS code. (Yes, this is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS). Source looked more like random capital letters than anything else. Killed any interest I had in computer programming for almost twenty years.
I know one of the foremost experts in MUMPS in the country - he's my father-in-law's old college roommate, I've met him a few times now. He was an undergrad student in the lab that developed it in the late '60s, and it's been his career. He's ... interesting, and swears that MUMPS is a brilliant language that was unfairly maligned in the computer science community.
cynan wrote:Holmes herself came in, sat across from him and apparently stared deeply into his eyes like she was attempting some sort of Jedi mind trick before simply stating something like "we think you will make a good addition to our team" or some such.
Vhalidictes wrote:It looks possible that Theranos can turn itself around and become a real company.
Vhalidictes wrote:I really doubted they could fake it until they make it, but the longer this drags on the more it looks like they will end up as a going concern. Well, assuming that Holmes steps down at some point.
moog wrote:Did anyone else enjoy the Theranos debacle as much as I did?
This was a satisfying riches to rags story. On a related note, sadly, Marissa Mayer's deal went through.
The Swamp wrote:I was surprised there was no story here on Mayer. Talk about the classic golden parachute. Except Mayer's was diamonds and platinum. With unobtainium laces. She's never going to have to work again, although I suspect she's going to become a hero figure to some years from now when the memory of her debacle at Yahoo begins to soften somewhat.
UberGerbil wrote:this administration's pick to head the FDA